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The best cover of a song is..............

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houseworkneverends · 11/07/2024 15:22

They wont go where I go - original Stevie Wonder, covered by George Michael. It's just perfect in every single way.

AIBU or do you think there is a better cover???

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Jettyspaghetti · 11/07/2024 16:11

Obviously the wuzels version of Ruby 😂

But honestly disturbs sound of silence is amazing.

ShortColdandGrey · 11/07/2024 16:13

Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar and everything that Pentatonix have done a version of.

massistar · 11/07/2024 16:14

Carter USM did phenomenal covers.. This is How It Feels, Rent and my personal favourite The Impossible Dream.

25thCenturyQuaker · 11/07/2024 16:18

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Four Tops - Walk Away Renee
David Bowie - Sorrow
Siouxie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

Jesus, I'm showing my age now...

BinkyBeaufort · 11/07/2024 16:22

Paul Young's version of Wherever I Lay My Hat does it for me.

murasaki · 11/07/2024 16:23

25thCenturyQuaker · 11/07/2024 16:18

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Four Tops - Walk Away Renee
David Bowie - Sorrow
Siouxie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

Jesus, I'm showing my age now...

Nooooo to Hendrix and All Along the Watchtower.

I've seen Bob doing it live and it was awesome. Also showing my age, though several decades less than his...

Bonjovispjs · 11/07/2024 16:24

Everybody's talking by Mika.

beguilingeyes · 11/07/2024 16:25

Izzynohopanda · 11/07/2024 16:09

Phil Collins - You can't hurry love

Didn’t realise it was a cover for years.

I can't agree with this. The Supremes are, well. supreme.
Kim Wilde's You Keep Me Hanging On is pretty good though.
Judie Tzuke did a stunning cover of Fall At Your Feet that slowed it down a tough. Just gorgeous.

LetMeGoogleThat · 11/07/2024 16:25

Jack White covering U2 Love is Blindness.

Flipzandchipz · 11/07/2024 16:28

Not saying it is better than the original but William Shatners cover of Pulp, Common People

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 11/07/2024 16:28

Mike flowers pops - wonderwall!

Flipzandchipz · 11/07/2024 16:30

Kirsty McColl - New England
Fall out Boy - Beat it

BouleDeSuif · 11/07/2024 16:31

Whiter Shade of Pale by Annie Lennox

Queenofwistfulthinking · 11/07/2024 16:31

Sledgehammer by Harry Styles

TigerRag · 11/07/2024 16:31

This is the day - Manic Street Preachers

Bigearringsbigsmile · 11/07/2024 16:32

Suspicious minds by the fine young cannibals

squashyhat · 11/07/2024 16:33

Flipzandchipz · 11/07/2024 16:28

Not saying it is better than the original but William Shatners cover of Pulp, Common People

William Shatner's version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is....out there Grin

SunshineonLeaves · 11/07/2024 16:33

I didnt know a lot of these were covers! I love The Killers doing Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet although I do like the original too

NoDishiRishi · 11/07/2024 16:34

Handbags and gladrags Stereophonics version

LuisCarol · 11/07/2024 16:34

Step on - Happy Mondays

cookiebee · 11/07/2024 16:34

Ok don’t anyone hate me, because the original by Dionne Warwick is of course outstanding, but I much prefer Cilla Blacks version of Anyone Who Had a Heart, I just think it’s more impassioned.

HappiestSleeping · 11/07/2024 16:34

GiveMeSpanakopita · 11/07/2024 15:26

Natalie Imbruglia's cover of Torn

I also prefer Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah to Leonard Cohen's

I love all the heavy metal and trap versions of Sweet Dreams, they really bring out the darkness in that song

Finally, not exactly a cover, but Hit Me Baby One More Time was originally written for TLC but they rejected it because they hated the undertones of domestic violence. Britney got it instead and I'm glad she did because TLC would've done it in RnB style whereas I think it works really well as a dance pop song. It was very rare at that time for a dance pop song to be in a minor key and I think it worked really well.

Travis did a good acoustic version

Eukanuba · 11/07/2024 16:35

Sonic Youth's version of Superstar by the Carpenters .

weegiemum · 11/07/2024 16:36

The Proclaimers version of King of the Road.

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